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  1. n. The spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period.

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from German Zeitgeist ("time-spirit"). (Wiktionary)

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  1. look
  1. smell
  1. feel
  1. tone
  1. feeling
  1. flavor
  1. spirit
  1. flavour

same context (20)

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  1. milieus
  2. constituentsonline
  3. puft
  4. stunting
  1. solve
  2. syncretism
  3. gobbledegook
  4. roblem
  1. roué
  2. politican
  3. morphologist
  4. congressperson
  1. reevaluation
  2. relativist
  3. homogenization
  4. require
  1. light-speed
  2. élite
  3. acclimatization
  4. duellist

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  1. Zeitgeist

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  1. jargon
  2. psychology
  3. crufty
  1. the s-word
  2. german
  3. graduate school
  1. rchk
  2. eiei
  3. e before i
  1. cvvccvvcc
  2. environment
  3. borrowed word
  1. society
  2. spirit
  3. climate
  1. hegel
  2. romanticists
  3. loanword

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  • jwjarvis not seeting the zeitgeist page makes me sad. I like clicking on "Zeitgeist" more so than boring "Community" Mar 27, 2011

  • frindley Kind of sorry to see that the "Zeitgeist" page on Wordnik has become community in my absence. :( Mar 13, 2011

  • thewordturkey Note on semantic correlation of zeitgeist with ethos: though I believe they can be used interchangeably to signify the distinctive character, outlook, "spirit of the time", etc.; zeitgeist tends to more so refer to the past. Dec 16, 2010

  • phantasee Absolutely, nuxiy!
    The Zeitgeist documetaries are definitely awesome!
    That's actually how I ended up finding this wonderful site; I was googling Zeitgeist because someone told me I could watch the documentaries online for free, but didn't know where to find them. I ended up clicking the wrong link and went to the Wordnik Zeitgeist page. Was a definite meant-to-be moment, as I fell in love with the odd conversations that I found in the oddest places on this site.

    I ended up returning to google to find the documentaries, eventually I did, and funnily enough, the website was easy as "zeitgeistmovie.com"

    oh dear... Jun 20, 2010

  • pterodactyl Let me just take a moment to express my love for Wordnik's new Zeitgeist page, especially the tagline. "Watch your language." It's brilliant, and elegant. Thank you, John! Oct 20, 2009

  • nuxiy Awesome documentary named Zeitgeist.

    Wikipedia:
    "... is a German language expression literally translated: Zeit, time; Geist, spirit, meaning "the spirit of the age and its society"." Mar 17, 2009

  • vermontster Find grant money!! (Major 50 Cent word.) Jun 28, 2008

  • zidab Because there is a fantastic bar with a patio in San Francisco called Zeitgeist. Feb 21, 2008

  • reesetee Maybe it's because they usually sound so psychological-like. Oct 23, 2007

  • uselessness It's the new S-word! Something about obscure German words that attracts the trendies, I guess. Oct 22, 2007

  • sonofgroucho I blame it on the boogie. Jan 5, 2007

  • kalidas blame the zeitgeist. Jan 3, 2007

  • sonofgroucho I wonder why this word is so popular? Dec 31, 2006

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‘zeitgeist’ has been looked up 10008 times, loved by 59 people, added to 309 lists, commented on 13 times, and has a Scrabble score of 19.